Brian Townsend Season 2022

CAREER
Was a team captain senior season...Played in 51 games, including six as a starter...Totaled 22 points on 11 goals and 11 assists, 31 ground balls and 17 caused turnovers...Earned three Academic All-Big Ten honors...Graduated with a degree in communication arts and sciences.

2022 • SENIOR SEASON
Awards: Earned a spot on the Academic All-Big Ten Team.

Season: Served as a team captain...Played all 14 games, including one as a starter...Finished with four points on one goal and three assists, 11 ground balls and 10 caused turnovers...Had at least one ground ball in seven games, including a season-high four at Saint Joseph's (2/19).

Lafayette (2/5): Scored one goal and caused one turnover. Vermont (2/16): Contributed one ground ball and one caused turnover. at Saint Joseph's (2/19): Picked up a season-high four ground balls. Yale (2/26): Picked up one ground ball. Cornell (3/12): Finished with one ground ball and one caused turnover. at Bucknell (3/15): Totaled one assist, two ground balls and two caused turnovers. Maryland (3/27): Caused one turnover. at Ohio State (4/1): Caused one turnover. Michigan (4/8): Finished with one ground ball and two caused turnovers. at Johns Hopkins (4/16): Tallied one assist. at Rutgers (4/22): Tallied one assist. at Johns Hopkins (4/30): Contributed one ground ball and one caused turnover.

2021 • SENIOR SEASON
Awards: Earned a spot on the Academic All-Big Ten Team.

Season: Missed the season due to an injury.
 
2020 • JUNIOR SEASON
Awards: Earned a spot on the Academic All-Big Ten Team.

Season: Played all seven games…Finished with one assist, six ground balls and two caused turnovers…The 2020 season was canceled March 12 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
Lafayette (2/1): Totaled a season-high three ground balls. at Villanova (2/8): Contributed one assist and one ground ball. at Penn (2/29): Picked up one ground ball and caused one turnover. at Furman (3/10): Picked up one ground ball and caused one turnover.
 
2019 • SOPHOMORE SEASON
Awards: Earned a spot on the Academic All-Big Ten Team.
 
Season: Started and played in 17 of the team’s 18 games…Finished with five points on five goals…Added nine ground balls and two caused turnovers.
 
Robert Morris (2/9): Scored his first goal of the season. at Yale (2/23): Picked up one ground ball. vs. Cornell (3/8): Scored a goal and added one ground ball and one caused turnover. at Maryland (3/31): Played in Penn State’s first varsity win over Maryland. Ohio State (4/7): Scored one goal. at Michigan (4/13): Picked up one ground ball. Rutgers (4/27): Picked up one ground ball as the Lions clinched their first Big Ten regular-season title. Rutgers (4/21): Picked up one ground ball. Johns Hopkins (5/4): Tallied one ground ball as the team clinched the program’s first Big Ten Tournament title. UMBC (5/12): Picked up one ground ball. vs. Loyola (Md.) (5/19): Scored two goals. vs. Yale (5/25): Played in the program’s first-ever NCAA National Semifinal game.
 
2018 • FRESHMAN SEASON
Season: Appeared in all 14 games and started the last five of the season…Finished with 12 points via five goals and seven assists in addition to five ground balls and three caused turnovers.
 
PRIOR TO PENN STATE
Attended Gonzaga College High School....Was a four-year varsity player…Earned 2017 Washington Post first-team All-Metropolitan and 2017 first-team Washington Catholic Athletic Conference...Won the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference Championship in 2014, 2015 and 2016…Named 2017 Gonzaga’s Team Most Valuable Player…Member of Under Armour 2017 D.C. Underclass team…Played club for Blackwolf and FCA…Named to 2015 FCA Sophomore Elite Team…Named team captain in junior and senior seasons.
 
PERSONAL
Parents are Mark and Kelly Townsend…Mother, Kelly, played tennis at Towson University and father, Mark, played basketball at Loyola (Md.)…Has a brother, Patrick, and a sister, Caitlin...Patrick played lacrosse at Marquette and Caitlin played lacrosse at Fairfield.